art history unit 7

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Crystal Palace

Paxton made this

Manet

Was thought to heavily influence the impressionism movement

Eiffel Tower

Eiffel made this

The tetons and the snake river

Adams made this

Niepce

After years of experimenting with chemicals, ________________________ came up with the process of heliography.

Hopper

American painter with a "lonely" theme in many of his paintings

Houses of Parliament

Barry and Pugin made this

Civil war-era photograph of a soldier

Brady made this and it portrays a soldier with a canon

Lange

Dorothea ________________________ was an American documentary photographer whose works revolved around the difficult lives of everyday people during the Great Depression.

Garnier palace

Garnier made this

Eastman

George ________________________ was the inventor of roll film.

Luncheon on the Grass

Manet made this

Breezing up

Homer made this

Nighthawks

Hopper made this

Sainte-Genevieve Library

In the ________________, the reading room has two large barrel-vaulted halls that are separated by a row of cast iron columns that sit on concrete stands, or pedestals.

Peary

It was _________'s choice of landscape that no one had ever seen before that made an impact on our world: the North Pole.

color photography

It was during an 1861 lecture at the Royal Institution that Maxwell used his three-color analysis in his first demonstration of ____________________.

neo-baroque

J.L. Charles Garnier's design for the Opéra not only has an impressive __________________ exterior, but the interior is spectacular as well.

Royal Pavilion

John Nash designed the ______________________ in such a way that it would show a variety of styles.

Sainte-Genevieve Library

Labrouste made this

Migrant mother

Lange made this

camera

Many artists saw the ____________________ as a quick and easy way to capture the realism of an object that they would have spent hours, days, even months, and years, to capture accurately.

Brady

Mathew ________________________ was one of the most celebrated photographers of the 19th century and became famous by his photojournalistic representation of the United States Civil War.

Woman baking bread

Millet made this

romantic

Millet's special use of light, the blurring of lines and contours, and a low vantage point on the horizon tend to keep his feet firmly planted in both the _____________ and Realistic camps.

Zoopraxiscope

Muybridge's images were copied in silhouette form and put on a disc, which was then viewed through a _______________ where the disc would turn at such a speed that gave the still images a sense of movement.

Royal Pavilion

Nash made this

abstract

Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket is iconic and shows the beginnings of ________________________ art.

two-dimensional

One of the aspects artists found most intriguing about the camera was how a three-dimensional object was transformed into a ____________________ one.

crystal palace

One of the most remarkable aspects of Paxton's ___________ was that it was constructed in prefabricated parts.

Homer

Painted many seascape scenes

Portrait of Madame X

Sargent made this

clock tower

The ____________ was voted London's most famous landmark, and the clock itself is known for its accuracy and reliability.

middle class

The ____________, historically known for its practicality, loved how the images of photography were clear and understandable, and the method for capturing them was at an affordable cost.

eiffel tower

The ________________ was designed to be the central structure for the 1889 Paris Exhibition.

basilicas

The interior of the Crystal Palace resembled the architecture that could be found in Roman and Christian ___________ because of its flat nave and barrel vaulted transept.

Renaissance

The style Labrouste "revived" was ________________________ in his Sainte-Geneviève Library.

American

The wild, unrealistic backstories behind the lives of the ________________________ painters often serve as a stark contrast to the realistic paintings they produced.

Gothic

When the Parliamentary Commission put together the requirements of the new building for the Houses of Parliament, they decided that it should be in the ________________ or Elizabethan design.

Durieu

While many thought of photography as only a means to capture a fleeting image, the photographer ______ worked alongside artist Delacroix to create an image that also captured a mood.

Big Ben

While the Clock Tower is commonly known as ___________, the origin of the nickname is still debatable.

The Phantom of the Opera

While the Opéra has been the home to many breathtaking shows, it also has had its tragedies in which one was loosely depicted in the famous novel ________________.

Nocturne in black and gold

Whistler made this

Muybridge

Who made this

Peary

Who made this

Bingham

Who made this? It shows the ruins of Machhu Pichu

American Gothic

Wood made this

Realism

________ relied on precise details and imitations of perception without the alteration of them.

Hopper

____________ almost always incorporated an architectural façade or urban structure as the backdrop for his compositions, putting as much thought into the inanimate objects of the piece as he did the human forms.

Courbet

_____________'s pieces were larger than life, with canvases that often scaled larger than 10 x 20 ft.

Millet

______________'s basic theme was peasant life, mostly portrayed by people working or involved in some common everyday activity.

Homer

________________________ loved to paint the wild sea, the exuberance of youth, and the awesomeness of simply being in the great outdoors.

Whistler

________________________'s early training as an engraver and illustrator gave him the essential skills of drawing and understanding forms in terms of light and dark.

Sargent

________________________'s trademark portraits usually displayed the body of the model all the way down to the knees.

Eastman

inventor of roll film; founder of Kodak photography

Adams

an environmentalist as well as an American photographer; well-known for his landscape photography

Daguerre

credited for inventing a way to secure an image on a metal plate

Nadar

experimented and was known for his wet-plate technique in photography

O'Sullivan

known for his Civil War photography

Millet

painted scenes of peasants with a sense of dignity

Wood

painted the iconic American Gothic

Durieu

photographer who worked with the painter Delacroix to create more depth and mood in his photos

Lange

revolved around the difficult lives of everyday people during the Great Depression

Revivalism

the term that describes the era where many building designers were creating structures that were reminiscent of the past, and they were "reviving" those styles in the present day.

Peary

was the first to "attain" the North Pole

Niepce

who made this


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